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# Is philosophy a kind of literature within culture, similar to other forms of cultural production, or does have a different relation to culture than other disciplines? | # Is philosophy a kind of literature within culture, similar to other forms of cultural production, or does have a different relation to culture than other disciplines? | ||
# Do different philosophical methods produce philosophical writing with different temporal and geographic validity? | # Do different philosophical methods produce philosophical writing with different temporal and geographic validity? | ||
| − | # | + | # Hypothesis: Philosophy is a much more of a national literature than we think it is. When we admire Gadamer are we admiring something from German philosophical culture. |
| + | # Hypothesis: Your method includes both the tools and traditions you tend to work from, as well as meta-beliefs about the status of those tools. | ||
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Questions about Method in Philosophy
- Does philosophy have "its own" methods?
- What, if anything, is distinctive about the problem of method in philosophy in comparison to other fields?
- Does method define philosophy? If not, what does?
- What is the difference between using a method from an historical tradition and working from that tradition?
- What is the difference between naturalism or phenomenology as a movement and as a set of methods?
- How would you approach a taxonomy of method in philosophy?
- Is philosophy a kind of literature within culture, similar to other forms of cultural production, or does have a different relation to culture than other disciplines?
- Do different philosophical methods produce philosophical writing with different temporal and geographic validity?
- Hypothesis: Philosophy is a much more of a national literature than we think it is. When we admire Gadamer are we admiring something from German philosophical culture.
- Hypothesis: Your method includes both the tools and traditions you tend to work from, as well as meta-beliefs about the status of those tools.
